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United States Patent | 5,542,131 |
Brantman | August 6, 1996 |
A sectional toilet seat and a method of using such a seat by disabled individuals. The toilet seat includes a lower seat member that supports an upper seat member having a removable section, with the removable section constituting less than a majority of the seating surface of the upper seat member. The method involves removing an upper seat section, transferring a person onto the remaining upper seat member and replacing the removed upper seat section while the person is supported by remaining upper seat member.
Inventors: | Brantman; Robert F. (1400 Waukegan Rd., Lake Forest, IL 60045) |
Appl. No.: | 324788 |
Filed: | October 18, 1994 |
Current U.S. Class: | 4/239; 4/254 |
Intern'l Class: | A47K 013/00 |
Field of Search: | 4/235,237,239,254,450,457,480,483,667 |
72634 | Dec., 1867 | Heywood | 4/237. |
937164 | Oct., 1909 | McAuliffe | 4/237. |
1408903 | Mar., 1922 | Newman | 4/237. |
1438491 | Dec., 1922 | Hilpert | 4/239. |
1668242 | May., 1928 | Griffith | 4/254. |
2094498 | Sep., 1937 | Saunders | 4/239. |
3341867 | Sep., 1967 | Keen | 4/239. |
HOMECARE, Feb. 1994, p. 70 (magazine advertisement for elevated toilet seat). |